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War erupted when the Union soldiers at Fort Sumter in South Carolina were attacked by the Confederate Army on April 12, 1861.

The Northern states, led by President Lincoln were known as the Union, while the Southern states, the Confederates of America, marched behind Jefferson Davis.

Two-thirds of soldiers lost their lives to disease during the war – with dysentery and typhoid fever the most common causes of death in camps with unclean water supplies and filthy cooking pots to blame.

A very stern-faced Lieutenant Colonel A.B. Elder of the 10th New York Infantry

Also pictured is George Edward Pickett who is best remembered for his participation in the futile and bloody Confederate offensive on the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg that bears his name, Pickett’s Charge.

An estimated three million men participated in the war. By the end of the conflict 620,000 died – roughly two percent of America’s population.